Born in 1986, Maryam Abedi grew up in Tehran, Iran. After graduating from University of Tehran (2010), She moved to New York to continue her studies at The Graduate School of Figurative Arts of New York (2012). Besides being an artist, Maryam Abedi pursued an MA in museum studies from Tehran University of Art (2019). Her work has been regularly exhibited in Iran, the United States and Europe, notably in Tehran, New York, Paris, Madrid and Leipzig.
Maryam Abedi's artworks:
Maryam Abedi’s work proceeds from various experiences of setting things side by side: arrays of canvas pieces; the tradition of figurative and abstract painting; “feminine” and “masculine”; artistic conventions; painting, sculpture, and installation art; and collage and assemblage.
Her personal style preserves and cherishes traditional achievements of painting, rendering them with reverent care and insight. Her allusion to the act of painting is also evident in her coloring technique: She supplements an abstract structure with textures and brush strokes of traditional figurative oil painting, thus bringing together painterly and minimal attitudes. The boundaries between categories of artistic conventions are blurred and discarded as a new approach emerges which is simultaneously modest and assertive. It evokes patchworks and suzanis on the one hand, and Baroque tones and hues on the other, thereby conjuring up humble needlework and grand historical art at the same time. All these can be placed together and produce novel patterns and significances by means of a method that seeks to provide ample opportunities to continue the ancient painting tradition through a reunion with another age-old tradition: carpet-making and its full internal vigor.
“In the Threads of Myths series, I explore the links between painting and environment it shares with visitors. The Threads of Myths. II attests to this idea by changing one of the painting’s expected parameters; it is no longer on the wall but on the floor. It is simultaneously object and painting. Like ancient architecture -as the title of the work implies- the role of painting and sculpture connected to it are blurred and interlaced with forms beyond what was expected of painting and sculpture.”
